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Favoriting May 25, 2022: From Mahraganat to Shaabi with special guest Andrew Simon
An audio tour of Simon’s new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Simon joins the broadcast to explore how Cairo street music mahraganat—and the official attempts to censor it—began decades earlier with shaabi, a form of folk music from northern Egypt, popular on cassette.

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Anwar Sadat, photo from Media of the Masses
Anwar Sadat, photo from Media of the Masses
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Anwar Sadat, photo from Media of the Masses

Artist Track Album Year Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 

Intro   Favoriting

Bodega Pop 

2022 

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100 Copies | https://100copies.bandcamp.com/
3phaz  Chaos Controlled   Favoriting 3phaz  2021  0:04:05 (Pop-up)
Mikha & Snake  Whats Up   Favoriting Whats Up  2021  0:06:58 (Pop-up)
Acid Arab feat. Sadat & Fifty  Hez Hez   Favoriting Hez Hez  2021  0:10:14 (Pop-up)
Ahmed El Sweasy  Lahza Wahda   Favoriting Lahza Wahda  2022  0:13:46 (Pop-up)
DJ Figo  Eadam Mayet   Favoriting Eadam Mayet  2020  0:18:23 (Pop-up)
Tahoon  Dakar   Favoriting Dakar  2021  0:21:39 (Pop-up)
Islam Chipsy & EEK  El Dynasor   Favoriting Kahraman  2020  0:23:52 (Pop-up)
 

Music behind DJ:
DJ Shobeer 

XX /Instrumental   Favoriting

XX /Instrumental 

2021 

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Andrew Simon joins us to talk about his new book, Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt

Music behind DJ:
Andrew Simon 

Talks with Gary   Favoriting

Live on Bodega Pop 

2022 

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Shabaan Abdel Rahim  Bakrah Israel   Favoriting     0:42:43 (Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية  Habah Fok We Habah Taht   Favoriting     0:58:37 (Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية  Zohmah Ya Dounya Zohmah   Favoriting     1:06:28 (Pop-up)
Nagat al Saghira نجاة الصغيرة  Ana Bashak El Bahr (I Love the Sea)   Favoriting     1:30:42 (Pop-up)
Maryam Saleh & Zeid Hamdan  Nixon Baba   Favoriting Halawella  2015  1:35:45 (Pop-up)
Sheikh Imam  Sharaft ya Nixon Baba   Favoriting     1:51:28 (Pop-up)
Al Fanaan Al Shaabi Abu Draa الفنان الشعبي أبو دراع  Mawal Rida Al Walidayn موال رضا الوالدين   Favoriting Mawal Jamal b/w Mawal Rida Al Walidayn موال جمال \ موال رضا الوالدين  1963  2:13:26 (Pop-up)
Mohamed Rushdi محمد رشدي  Adaweya عدوية   Favoriting Adaweya عدوية  1965  2:26:27 (Pop-up)
al-Rayyis Bira الريس بيرة  Duniya Gharura دنيا غرورة   Favoriting Duniya Gharura دنيا غرورة  1973  2:42:24 (Pop-up)
Samir Al-Iskandrani سمير الإسكندراني  Once More It's You   Favoriting Once More It's You  1966  2:49:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catrina Paslaru 

Hei La Bodega   Favoriting

Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 

2000 

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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:58pm
LambdaCalculus:

Heya Gary!
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Gary:

Hey there, LambdaC!
Avatar 6:59pm
tim abdellah:

Hiya Gary!! It's been a few weeks since I got to hang out. Looking forward to this one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Gary:

Tim, this is the show for you! haha
  7:02pm
headcleaner:

Evening, all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
melinda:

hi Gary and chums
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Gary, Andrew, and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Gary:

Welcome, Headcleaner, Melinda, and James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hi, Gary! Hello, Garyphiles!
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WR:

www.discogs.com...
  7:06pm
peter:

hello Gary & all!
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TDK60:

Hi there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Gary:

Stream Master Doug! WR! Peter! TDK60!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Bodega Boppers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Gary:

Dr. Jazz!
  7:14pm
Andrew:

Hi all! Can't wait to talk cassettes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Rich in Washington:

Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Gary:

Andrew Simon's in the house! I mean bodega. Welcome! And hey there Rich!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Rich in Washington:

This is amazing!
  7:26pm
Andrew:

Now imagine this song blasting for tons of taxis in Cairo! Thank you flash drives in dashboards.
  7:26pm
Jill B.:

Hi Gary. Better late than never!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Gary:

This one's on vinyl! Got my copy at Record Grouch
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Gary:

Mom!
  7:27pm
Jill B.:

Son!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
WR:

we hear him, his level a bit lower than yours.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
WR:

Levels better.
  7:42pm
Nate from Oz:

great show. thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Gary:

Welcome, Nate!
  7:45pm
Nate from Oz:

is any of this music available for non Egyptian protestors like me?
  7:47pm
peter:

i think i remember this having a very crudely comic music video on YouTube..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Gary:

Yes!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
WR:

100copies.bandcamp.com
several are here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
caroline from atlanta:

evening all! logging in late :~)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Gary:

Caroline!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

WooHoo ! Egypt !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Gary:

RevRab!
  8:10pm
headcleaner:

102 million Egyptians can't be wrong
  8:10pm
Nate from Oz:

what a great song!
  8:12pm
Nate from Oz:

thanks so much Gary and Andrew. got to run to a meeting!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Gary:

Happy meeting, Nate!
  8:14pm
Andrew:

Thanks for listening, Nate! I hope you don't encounter any traffic : )
Avatar 8:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx Andrew Simon for all this Presentation !
Avatar 8:22pm
tim abdellah:

The cassette police!!!
  8:23pm
headcleaner:

I think we've just heard a new band name
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Hi Gary Hi Andrew! Hi all!!
  8:29pm
peter:

Did I come for the talk and stay for the music, or come for the music and stay for the talk..?
Avatar 🇰🇷 8:30pm
Listener Gregory:

Will listen while waiting for a phone call. Seems really fascinating.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Gary:

PaulRobeson1922! Gregory!
  8:37pm
Andrew:

This song is about Richard Nixon's visit to Cairo in the summer of 1974!
  8:37pm
Andrew:

It was remixed in this electro-rock version following the Egyptian Revolution in 2011!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
WR:

Dunno why I find this remix of Nixon Baba so charming. Mostly liking the vocal, which I would guess was same on the original. So would like to hear the original as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Gary:

We'll hear it in a bit!
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northguineahills:

Doesn't Alan Bishop now live in Cairo (playing w/ Omar Korshad)
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northguineahills:

I mean, Richard Bishop....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Gary:

NGH!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Nixon dark personality
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TDK60:

Tricky had only two more months to go..heh.
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Listener Gregory:

Nixon was always more comfortable on foreign soil, playing the great internationalist, with Henry Kissinger by his side.
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northguineahills:

Hunter S Thompson would love this song.
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northguineahills:

unfun fact - Kissinger is still alive and kicking at 99 years old.....
Avatar 9:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ah yes. The Convenience of the War On Drugs.
What it was created for, factually.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
PaulRobeson1922:

There is still opportunity for the Huage to Wheel Kissinger down to Central Park East and whisk him away to a fair trial….
Avatar 9:09pm
TDK60:

Paul R: Kissinger lives here in NYC eh? I'd like to find his apt bldg., blare Victor Jara on a boombox outside. But maybe the good news out of Chile is enough to fluster...
  9:11pm
headcleaner:

@simongandrew
  9:13pm
headcleaner:

I'd like to see Kissinger deported to stand trial at that soccer stadium where Jara (and thousands of others) met their fate
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northguineahills:

indeed, headcleaner!
  9:15pm
headcleaner:

Interesting that modern capitalism (and its effects of forced obsolescence) can be as successful at eradicating physical cultural memory as some of history's most notorious dictatorships -- if not more so
  9:16pm
?:

Kissinger is on Park Ave. near 52nd.
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Listener Gregory:

I told a story on another show about how I had a wonderful cassette of early fusion of jazz and Indian music, which after I while I felt used some very strange scales. Eventually I realized that the tape was stretching each time I played it, and the notes got slightly flatter with each playing. That is the problem with cassettes.
  9:21pm
headcleaner:

In principle that can all be digitally reconstructed (if we can get over our legitimate "ick" at things digital)
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
WR:

I looked and New York Public library doesn't have it on order. Don't know how to nudge them.
Avatar 9:25pm
tim abdellah:

That T-Pain Tiny Desk was amaaazing!
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northguineahills:

"How To Wreck a Nice Beach" by Dave Thompkins is the book Gary was referencing...
  9:26pm
Andrew:

Sometimes you can submit requests, WR!
Avatar 9:26pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...nevermind the Theremin - as you all know
...Hendrix's pedal effects maker / tweeker Roger Mayer had roots in the British Navy that reportedly was not overtly discussed (as Jimi's Manager Michael Jefferey liked to put it about that he was former MI5)...
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
PaulRobeson1922:

@TDK: Henry Kissinger has an apartment overlooking the park…

LBJ (in private) considered what Kissinger did in Vietnam on the eve of the 68’ election to be treason…Henry sabotaged the peace talks @Nixon’s behest
  9:28pm
headcleaner:

Damn this rocks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
coelacanth∅:

hello
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Gary:

Coelacanth!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yes see KenBurns' 'Vietnam' for clear exposition of the specific details of Nixon going behind the U.S. Government on Peace Talks to prolong the Vietnam War to get himself Elected.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Gary:

Hey Kids, want Andrew Simon's awesome book ... at a discount? Go here and use the code SIMON20 for 20% off: www.sup.org...
Avatar 9:34pm
northguineahills:

@Gary: saving that for when I can buy books again,,, thanks! (and thanks to Andrew too!)
  9:34pm
Andrew:

Thank you for listening @northguineahills!
  9:35pm
?:

"Treason." Among the most over- and misused words of our time, right along with "terrorist."
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:36pm
PaulRobeson1922:

@Rev Rabbit: The 13 part documentary is Ok. It’s good to gain a surface level understanding of the American involvement in the Vietnam War… but burns does not cover Hué in enough detail and the tone of the film lacks moral clarity… the war was profoundly immoral from the start. Ken Burns does not take a strong moral stance in the film.

There is a perfumed river in Hué & a mass grave in the strawberry patch there. Why? Ken burns tells you how but has little to say about why why why
  9:37pm
headcleaner:

Can you enlighten us, as you always do, PR22?
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:37pm
PaulRobeson1922:

No
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@PaulR: We've had this convo before. I think Burns' task was to give exposition to the entire History & all events - & in so doing did not spare any Administration exposition of its self-deceptions or lies - broadly. I think it was quite clear & skillful in this.
  9:43pm
headcleaner:

Moralization is overrated. Better to inform. And in appropriate contexts, indict. (Which seems to overlap with moralization, but is quite different)
Avatar 9:44pm
tim abdellah:

Google translates Duniya Gharura as "Arrogant World"
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
PaulRobeson1922:

@Rev Rabbit: yes we have.

Burn’s Civil war coversge is much better. Did you notice Burns connect Racism at home to racism abroad? He told a tale of the Vietnam War without a moral high ground.

He failed in his retelling of the war for this reason. The Vietnam war, everyday it went on, was profoundly immoral and the film does not stress this clearly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
Gary:

Now you're hearing the B side
  9:46pm
Andrew:

For the Kerning Cultures Podcast on Shaykh Imam: https://kerningcultures.com/kerningcultures/
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tim abdellah:

Congrats Andrew on the book! Thanks Gary and Andrew for the fascinating conversation and great grooves (spools?)
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
PaulRobeson1922:

The sun bleached bones in Hué, in the Strawberry patch, understand
  9:47pm
Andrew:

Thanks so much @Tim! I appreciate it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I certainly didn't get the impression Burns was trying to paint it as anything but a vast mistake. Did he give enuff emphasis to war crimes & horrors in proportion to, say, military strategies ? Might be a valid question. His task here was of course immense & hugely freighted. Think I'm leaning towards headcleaner on this one maybe...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Gary:

So happy you were here for this one, Tim!
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Listener Gregory:

Gary, what is the instrumental background to this song (Duniya Gharura)? Horns? Some kind of loop?
Avatar 9:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...in the current culture - sober exposition of Facts is a Statement in itself - strong medicine even...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Gary:

Gosh, Gregory, I'm not entirely sure, but I feel like I'm hearing trumpets plus something with reeds?
Avatar 🇰🇷 9:49pm
Listener Gregory:

Yeah. Thoughts of the Master Musicians of Jajouka (whom I slightly know) are occurring to me, unbidden.
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Listener Gregory:

(slightly know their music! I have not had the privilege of meeting them.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Gary:

Hey Kids! Stick around for Sam Segal's If You Lose Your Horse after this, starting at 10 PM sharp! Tonight's episode "With All of Their Eyes, Horses Behold Openness" happens right here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
PaulRobeson1922:

@Rev: a sober exposition on Nazism stresses the profoundly immoral nature of Murder of unpunished murder… Vietnam was Unpunished murder everyday… do u understand that?

One of the lessons born out of WWII is that it is our humanity that is capable of these acts… Nixon did not learn any lessons… hippies would critique Nixon as “a little fucking hitler”
Avatar 🇰🇷 9:53pm
Listener Gregory:

Excellent show, Gary. My phone call never came, so I was able to hear most of it. Thanks!
  9:54pm
headcleaner:

Yet another essential document, Gary
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TDK60:

Thanks Gary, Andrew.
Avatar 9:55pm
LambdaCalculus:

Thanks for a great show, Gary and Andrew!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
caroline from atlanta:

great show tonight, thanks Gary and thanks Andrew!
  9:56pm
peter:

Thanks Gary and Andrew! Great show
  9:56pm
Andrew:

Thank you all for listening!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
PaulRobeson1922:

As early as 1965 Mcnamara knew for certain* bombing would never work to “win” the war… the state dept. knew bombing would never work on an agricultural country… but the
Bombs fell for nearly 9 more years
Avatar 9:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

PaulR - I suppose every War - or even preparing for War - is that. I think Vietnam being the festering sore in U.S.American politics, foreign ploicy & self-identity for decades - Burns probly saw the shortest line between two points of healing being exposition of factual History. I mean - I certainly learned from it. McNamara was neither spared nor misrepresented in this effort.
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PaulRobeson1922:

Peace & Love ya’ll!! Good show Gary & Andrew
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Thanks for the fantastic show!! Will grok book.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Gary!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Gary - & also Andrew Simon ! ~
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Gary:

Have a great night, everyone!
  10:00pm
Andrew:

Goodnight all!
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WR:

Thank you ! Gary!

Deeply appreciate the work you are doing Andrew! Thank you!
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